Declining industryResults of these embargos on bovine industry are catastrophic. Canadian bovinesector suffers an unprecedented crisis. Before, more than 80% Canadian beefand livestock exportations (4 billions $Can for 2002) went to US. On the Americanterritory, situation isn't better. At the symposium "North American Beef securityand ESB economic consequences on American beef industry", held on June 17th2005 in St. Paul (Minnesota), producers worried. "Many believe that beefpacking industry never will recover from the actual crisis" told James Bezan,Selkirk-Interlake deputy. On the whole, interventions in this symposium were aboutthe necessity of opening frontiers. Whereas such a move will not be possiblewithout the implementation of tremendous mesures in order to reassure consumers.A few days after this symposium, the mighty Consumers Union association officially sent an open letter to the US Departement of Agriculture Secretaryasking him systematic testing of all more than 20 months bovine destined tofood chain, along with the use of the more performing and sensible tests.